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Youth march in the street holding banner reading "Peace Starts Here"

Chicago high school students from The Faith Community of St. Sabina's B.R.A.V.E. program (Bold Resistance Against Violence Everywhere) along with other high school from the neighborhood around St. Sabina attend anti-gun violence rally and march on the South Side. Photo by Anne Ryan

Youth & Children, Youth ministry, Reconciliation

B.R.A.V.E. Youth Leaders chart a strategy to combat violence and promote peace

Youth on Chicago’s South Side are taking anti-violence work into their own hands. Rallies and protests are just part of a campaign that also includes advocacy and policy change.

The SHINE conference offers a chance for young Latinas in Texas to gather and learn. Photo courtesy of Brenda Rincones

Youth & Children, Youth ministry

Brenda Rincones: Reaching out to a new generation of young Latina leaders

When the Woman’s Missionary Union of Texas reached out to young women, they were overwhelmed by the response. Hundreds of young Latinas gathered at the SHINE conference to talk about everything from suicide to teen pregnancy.

Youth & Children, Youth ministry, Education, Higher education

Episode 6: Almeda M. Wright on the act of radical listening to young Christians

In this episode of “Can These Bones,” co-host Laura Everett talks with Almeda M. Wright, Yale Divinity School professor and the author of “The Spiritual Lives of Young African Americans,” about her training and background as an engineer and her work with young people in ministry.

Photo courtesy of Elizabeth Corrie. A concept map that one of the students made after the Game of Life workshop that ties together several themes from the program.

Youth & Children, Youth ministry

Elizabeth Corrie: Empowering youth for change by connecting theology and social analysis

We can teach young people how to engage in a kind of practical theology that takes seriously their budding adult faith and their capacity for action, writes the director of the Youth Theological Initiative at Emory’s Candler School of Theology.

The Parable of the Sower as illustrated in Hortus deliciarum compiled by Herrad of Landsberg at the Hohenburg Abbey in Alsace (12th century).

Youth & Children, Youth ministry

Jeffrey Kaster: How to empower youth to do theology

Youth ministry experts with decades of experience are learning the benefits of engaging youth in theological reflection that isn’t dumbed down, writes the coordinator of the Lilly Youth Theology Network.

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Innovation, Social innovation, Youth & Children, Youth ministry

Try Pie helps Iowa teens build bonds across racial and economic divides

Apple, pumpkin, blueberry or pecan, sometimes a pie is more than a pie. To a group of teenage girls in Cedar Falls and Waterloo, Iowa, pies mean jobs, education, faith development and reconciliation.

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Youth & Children, Youth ministry

Alaina Kleinbeck: Youth ministers are advocates for all young people in their communities

Young people are vulnerable, and churches must experiment with more holistic approaches to youth ministry, writes the director of Duke Youth Academy.

Matt Overton working with the lawn care crew.

Last spring, the Rev. Matt Overton (center) supervised teens doing yardwork. Overton founded Mowtown Teen Lawn Care to provide mentoring opportunities as well as job experience for youth. Photo by Adam Guggenheim

Youth & Children, Youth ministry, Congregational innovation

Matt Overton: Work is a great vehicle for mentoring teens

It’s important for youth and adults to have relationships that are consistent and natural. One way to do that is through shared work, writes a youth pastor.

Via their avatars, children and teens gather for worship in the sanctuary of The Robloxian Christians.

Youth & Children, Youth ministry, Congregations, New forms of church, Christian Leadership

Teen's online church draws young people from around the world

Founded and pastored by a Tacoma teenager, The Robloxian Christians is a real -- albeit virtual -- church where young people gather to worship, pray and connect. And it has important lessons for those who lead traditional churches and church-related institutions.

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Youth & Children, Youth ministry, Reconciliation, Racial & ethnic

M. Brandon Winstead: Three ways forward toward racial healing

A white youth pastor says it’s important to go beyond diversity when leading youth in the work of racial repair. Admitting failure, fostering careful listening, and paying attention to the local context are all important parts of the process, he writes.

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Fourth in a series. In Acts, writes C. Kavin Rowe, the apostles create a new church structure to address the neglect of widows, among the most vulnerable of people.

A learning resource for Christian leaders and their institutions from Leadership Education at Duke Divinity

Most Recently Published

B.R.A.V.E. Youth Leaders chart a strategy to combat violence and promote peace

Brenda Rincones: Reaching out to a new generation of young Latina leaders

Episode 6: Almeda M. Wright on the act of radical listening to young Christians

Elizabeth Corrie: Empowering youth for change by connecting theology and social analysis

Jeffrey Kaster: How to empower youth to do theology

Try Pie helps Iowa teens build bonds across racial and economic divides

Alaina Kleinbeck: Youth ministers are advocates for all young people in their communities

Matt Overton: Work is a great vehicle for mentoring teens

Teen's online church draws young people from around the world

M. Brandon Winstead: Three ways forward toward racial healing

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